Vehicle-axle



(No Model.)

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No. 367,076. Patented July 26, 1887.

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SAMUEL TOOMEY, OF CANAL DOVER, OHIO.

VEHICLE-AXLE.

' SPECIPCATION forming part of Letters Patent 1\To. 367,076,datel July 26, 1887.

Application filed May 14. 1887. Serial No. 238,197. (No model.)

i or bent axles, and particularly to bent axles made of wood, or having a wooden stock with metallic spindles or axle arms or journals.

The essential defect in bent wooden axles, otherwise desirable, heretofore has arisen from the want of strength and stiffness in the bent or curved portions, the grain of the wood havin'g become partially ruptured and considerably weakened by the bending, so that itis diflicult to keep the axle in true shape. A I

Myinvention consists in making the wooden "axle or stock substantially straight in the middle portion, with the bends or curves near the ends thereof, and in forming extensions of the spindles or axle-journals to serve as braces by extending as chords across from one extremity of the curved portion to the other.

ln the drawings, Figure 1 represents a side view of one of my improved axles complete; Fig. 2, an under side View ofthe same; Fig. 3, aside view of one of the combined spindles and braces employed, shown separate] y; Fig. 4a transverse section of the axle in a plane indicated bywthe lline :v x, Fig. 1.

The wooden axle or stock A has the middle portion thereof straight, or substantially so, and this portion, not being weakened in shaping, is made with sufficient strength and stift?4 ness without any addition thereto. The two ends are curved -as much as required to raise the axle tothe desired height, the extreme ends being preferably recurved upward slightly to give the proper direction to the terminations.

The steel or iron axlejournals or arms B B have extensions C C, which serve as braces, extending from the ends of the wooden axle straight across, obliquely upward, to the inner ends of the curved portions, substantially as shown in Fig. 1. extension next to the spindle proper is curved to properly conform to the shape of the extremities of the wooden axle,vand this portion of the braces is sunk into grooves eut-in the under side of the wooden axle, substantially as shown. This portion of the braces Vis best secured to the wooden axle by clips E E, surrounding both and coupling the spindles to the axle. The inner end of each brace is also preferably held by a clip, G, to the wooden axle. The extremity of the brace may also be bolted or screwed to the under side of the axle.

I claim as my inventionl. In combination with a bent wooden axle curved near the two ends, metallic spindles or axle-journals having brace extensions reaching from one end'to the other of the curved portions of the axle, substantially as and for the purpose herein specified.

2. The combination, with a bent wooden axle, A, curved near the ends, of spindles or journals B B, having brace extensions C O reaching from end to end of the curved portions, and a portion of each extension sunk into grooves in the underside of the axle, substantially as and for the purpose herein specitied.

In witness whereof I have hereunto signed my name in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

' SAMUEL TOOMEY.

Titnesses:

JOHN A. Hos'rErLnR, GEORGE W. BETsoHER A portion, c, of each brace 

